Posts Tagged ‘fortunetelling’

Here are the latest Pulsations, links to fresh stories and visuals about Japan, shout-outs to fellow bloggers, and highly clickable stuff that we think you might enjoy.

In no particular order, they are . . .

The escape of the penguin (from Shisaku): A penguin grabs headlines when it suddenly showed up in a Tokyo River. But how did it escape the zoo? And, more importantly, how is it elaborating on the meaning of soteigai (inconceivable)?

Facebook in Japan in 2012 (from What Japan Thinks): More than half of survey respondents joined Facebook last year, over 10 percent of the users don’t have any friends at all and the most favored activity: updates about food.

Inside the Nagakin Capsule Tower (from Tokyo Times): In the 1970s, Japanese architects envisioned the future being dominated by cubicles. The future didn’t agree.

Japan plays its first match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, against Côte d’Ivoire this weekend. Although the tournament kicks off two days earlier in São Paulo, for many the Samurai Blue’s opening game ushers in the event, along with the activities that would normally raise eyebrows but get a pass every four years, such […]